Metro, in partnership with the County of Los Angeles and the SEED Foundation, today broke ground on the Vermont Manchester Transit Priority Project, which will dramatically transform a dirt lot the size of two city blocks that has been blighted for almost 30 years. After acquiring the property through eminent [continue reading]
(pdf) VermontMay2018Presentation There are four more community meetings this month for Metro to provide an update on the Vermont Transit Corridor project. The project proposes to build bus rapid transit [continue reading]
pdf here The public hearing for all-door boarding on the 754 Rapid and 720 Rapid will be this Thursday at 9 a.m. during the Metro Board’s System Safety, Security and [continue reading]
Pdf for download and printing here UPDATE, OCT. 26: At their monthly meeting, the Metro Board approved going forward with all-door boarding on both lines. *** The earlier Source post: Metro staff is proposing to expand all-door boarding next year to two of the system’s busiest bus lines – the [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors — the agency’s ultimate deciders — met Thursday for their regular monthly meeting. A pdf of the agenda for downloading/printing can be found here. The recap [continue reading]
A webstream of the meeting will be posted here, likely within 24 hours: Listen and watch online here. (pdf of Board agenda here). We have separate posts for the new policing contract approved [continue reading]
(for pdf downloads, please click here) Earlier this month, Metro released the above presentation on the Vermont Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project. The presentation summarizes a technical study that was launched [continue reading]
The Art of Transit today is a no-brainer, given the winter storm that has descended on the Sierra Nevada the past few days. To wit: #CAStorm @jarrettmjackson of Mammoth Lakes, #California 1/9/17: "I'm too tired from shoveling snow to tweet anything…"#StormHour pic.twitter.com/T3rScwTLuQ — Ed Joyce (@EdJoyce) January 9, 2017 Wondering [continue reading]
Here’s the latest on the planning for a new east-west walking and biking path in South Los Angeles using old railroad corridors: 1)Metro is aiming to open the first segment in [continue reading]
One of the items on the Nov. 8 ballot in Los Angeles County is a half-cent sales tax ballot measure by Metro called the Los Angeles Country Traffic Improvement Plan [continue reading]
